20 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: Total No. 9 10 11 Agency in charge Ministry of Education and Science Ministry of Defense Security Service Kind of custodial setting Health care boarding schools of general education Special boarding schools of general education Children’s homes Disciplinary battalions Guardhouses Temporary detention premises Psychiatric clinics Special wards Military units Territorial authorities Temporary detention facilities Total Table 1 demonstrates certain changes made in the structure and number of custodial settings. For example, currently the Ministry of Social Policies is reorganizing children’s asylums into social and psychological rehabilitation centers; the Ministry of Education reduced the number of boarding schools for orphans and children deprived of parental care by half, and the number of homes for children is also going down; the Ministry of Defense has cut by half the number of its guardhouses; the number of special vehicles for movement of detainees, arrestees and convicts decreased by one third, the Ministry of Internal Affairs closed about thirty temporary detention facilities, and so on. However, as a result of monitoring efforts new kinds of institutions were deemed to formally meet the definition of custodial settings. They are, specifically, the premises Number of visits 2013 visits Incl. repeat visits. Total 1 7   8 334 3 12 2 15 104 1 4 94 1 2   1 1 1 2 2   2 2 1 3 3 18 32   2   2 4 14 337 27 4 8 386 27         1 1 1           1 1 1   1 1 1     1 5,973 5,784 169 262 24 431 2012 2013 2012 66 71 359 at international airports for holding individuals not allowed into the territory of Ukraine on grounds of violation of the legislation on the protection of state borders; wards for compulsory tuberculosis treatment at anti-TB facilities and other similar wards in the health care system. Such settings will become eligible for NPM monitoring in 2014. During 2013 monitoring visits embraced 262 institutions, of which 24 were visited for the second time. Drawing 3 and Table 2 show the breakdown of visits by agencies in charge and by regions of Ukraine. On the basis of the results of each visit NPM sent detailed reports to the management of the relevant ministry or agency, with indication of identified deficiencies and recommendations regarding their elimination.